Adhoc US HISTORY Flashcards
Who was the first President of America to get a speeding ticket?
Ulysses S. Grant was the first President to be arrested for speeding on a horse and buggy in 1872.
Revolutionary war. July 3, 1778, British and paid Seneca Indians attacked the Wyoming valley settlements in Pennsylvania. The Indians took 227 scalps of Americans and burnt a thousand houses to the ground.
Indians were paid for scalps by Hamilton, a British loyalist.
Mohawk Indians and Tory rangers descended upon A town near Albany NY. The town was plundered and torched. 32 Men, women and children were slaughtered. Many were scalped and dismembered.
For General Washington and Congress, it was the last straw.
In February 1779, Washington ordered the total destruction and devastation of the Indian settlements. Washington said the country was not to be simply overrun, but completely destroyed.
There were about 5,000 troops assigned to this mission.
The American army leveled and destroyed more than forty towns and fields. 80% were destroyed. The Indians begged the British for food and shelter during the harsh winter. Hundreds died from starvation, disease and others froze to death.
Revolutionary war, more Americans died as prisoners of war than on the battlefields. Then ate their shoes, combed hair lice and ate them for food. Ate rats, dogs, anything they could find.
Ref: War for a new nation. Prime, 4.9 hours long!
TARRED AND FEATHERED:
1) . Strip the victim naked.
2) Heat tar until it is hot and liquid.
3. Pour tar on victim covering complete body.
4) Cover body completely with feathers.
5. Set feathers on fire.
The Revolutionary war lasted eight years ending up being fought in different countries. General Washington resigns his commission and was unanimously picked to be our first president. The idea of president came from Ben Franklin.
Lasting twice as long as the Civil war but just as harsh and bloody, it was a Great War for freedom that at many times the colonists thought “what are we thinking believing this rag tag groups of farmers can beat the greatest power on Earth?” But we won!
Reading literacy was only at 20% in the year 1820. Lincoln grew up in a house with a dirt floor.
21st-century best time ever to be living.
Imagine literacy rate in the Bible days about 1%. No wonder our culture believes in the metaphysical.
Lincoln abandoned his future 1st. wife at the day he was to be married.
In 1862, Lincoln declared the slaves to be free with the emancipation proclamation.
Most people think Lincoln liked black people, but that is not true. Lincoln called five prominent black people from Washington D.C. including Fredrick Douglas and proposed to move all the freed slaves to Africa or Central America.
Lincoln said to the five black representatives that THE WHITE PEOPLE HERE ARE NEVER GOING TO ACCEPT YOU AS EQUAL! You should leave this country and recolonize in Africa or Central America.
(MN: Lincoln was right as horrible as it sounds. Here in America, 170 years later blacks in general still are not and will never be fully accepted as equal by ALL white people. Nice idea. Some progress made, but overall a failed idea. Just too many troublemakers stir up anger and resentment.)
On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln declares all black slaves living in rebel territories (Confederate) shall be FREE!
This was a political move to win the war. There were roughly 750,000 slaves in neutral states that were not freed under this proclamation which worded “REBEL” territories. It did not apply to Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky or Maryland.
Ref: Lincoln, divided we stand, “A proclamation “ aired 3/7/21.
Meanwhile, Mary Todd, Lincoln’s wife was accepting bribes to get Lincoln to appoint corrupt people into high offices of government!
Mary gave kickbacks and padded payrolls for bribes!
The Emancipation Proclamation was only in effect until the war was over! It was only a war effort strategy. When the war was over, so was the proclamation!
In May 1863, the “Women’s Emancipation Petition” headed by Elizabeth Keddy and Susan B. Anthony who gathered 400,000 signatures to congress to make a constitutional amendment that would officially end Black slavery! So Lincoln did not end slavery in America, congress ended slavery because of the petition to congress with 400,000 American signatures.
So Elizabeth Keddy and Susan B. Anthony pushed the idea to permanently free black slaves in all of America.
This was the 13th amendment.
Lincoln supported the 13th amendment as a means to get re-elected. It wasn’t his idea, but he gave the idea traction also gaining this amendment as a means to win the 1864 election.
(MN: A quick note of parallel presidential assassinations related to African American freedom and civil rights. (1) Lincoln shot for wanting to give voting rights to AAs that could read and write. — John Wilkes Booth—(2) Kennedy shot —Oswald—for pushing anti-segregation for AAs in southern schools.) (The Civil Rights Bill) Ref: America in color, episode 5, the 1960’s.
Under Bill Clinton’s administration 2000, more blacks were in prison than were slaves in 1850!
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